We are pleased to announce that Matt Malone has been named President and CEO of Barber-Nichols Inc. by its Board Of Directors effective May 3rd, 2021. Matt joined BNI in the summer of 2015 as a Project Engineer growing BNI’s strategic footprint in the rocket engine turbopump market.  He was promoted in January 2018 to…

Barber-Nichols will be opening at 9:00 AM on Monday, March 15th due to inclement weather.

We are still adding the finishing touches on our new 43,000 sqft facility. We are so happy to have worked with Ware Malcomb, Brinkmann Constructors, and the City of Arvada as we continue to expand Barber-Nichols. Please check out our time-lapse video!

Spring 2021 Short Course “Practical Rotordynamics for Real Machinery” Being Held Virtual – Cost $1,950 For more information or to register www.rotordynamicscourse.com

New Patent Granted We have been granted a new patent, Patent No.: US 10,626,916. Click here to see a full list of our patents.

We were lucky enough to have a beautiful morning in Arvada, Colorado to help keep our community clean. Volunteering is important to us and we are excited to continue participation in the City of Arvada, Adopt-A-Street Program. Thanks to our amazing and caring employees who contributed to the street clean-up effort on Saturday.

We don’t want to jinx this, but our building is on track to complete the first quarter of 2021. Here are some photos of the progress made and the original drawing.

Barber-Nichols 2020 CMA Aerospace Manufacturer of the Year! Winners were announced last week in the fifth annual Colorado Manufacturing Awards, co-hosted by CompanyWeek and Manufacturers Edge. CMA founder and CompanyWeek publisher Bart Taylor noted the award was two years in coming, “Barber-Nichols deserves recognition for what they’re accomplishing, and for how well they represent Colorado’s…

More State-of-the-Art Xdot Foil Bearing Test Rigs Shipped! Two more state-of-the-art Xdot foil bearing test rigs were shipped to our customer last week. Xdot provided custom designs and manufacturing for these thrust and radial bearing rigs, giving our customer the edge over their competition. Both rigs are capable of 50,000 rpm and provide a range…

Xdot has shipped the initial order of 24 of the smallest thrust bearings we have ever built!